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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Epilepsia. 2018 Aug 10;59(9):1684–1695. doi: 10.1111/epi.14527

Table 2:

Change in median number of negative health events (NHEs) between SMART vs. WL over 10 and 24- weeks follow-up

Variable SMART (Mean, SD, Median, N) WL (Mean, SD, Median, N) Statistic (p-value)a

Primary Outcome:
Change in total NHE count* −10.16, 39.2, −2, 45 −1.93, 18.6, −0.5, 46 0.04**

NHE sub-types:
Past 30-day seizure count
 Change baseline to 10-week −1.40, 5.12, 0, 53 5.5, .62, 0, 58 0.60
 Change baseline to 24-week −0.25, 8.44, 0, 51 −.15, 1.8, 0, 52 0.65
Past 6-month seizure count
 Change baseline to 24-week −7.83, 40, −1, 47 −0.88, 15.7, 0, 49 0.15
Past 6-month ER and Hospitalization count
Change baseline to 24-week −0.44, 1.84, 0, 45 −1.26, 8.80, 0, 47 0.69
*

Difference between baseline and 24-week follow-up.

a

Comparison of change from baseline in SMART vs. WL. All calculations used Mann-Whitney U test

**

Statistical significant at α=0.05 with 2-tailed.